Statesman and thirty-fifth United States President (1961-63), John Fitzgerald Kennedy, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917 was the first president born in the 20th century, the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency and the first of the Roman Catholic faith. He was the second of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy, Harvard graduate, bank president at 25, multimillionaire, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and ambassador to Great Britain and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, daughter of John Francis Fitzgerald, mayor of Boston. JFK had a happy childhood, full of family games and sports. Encouraged by his father to take part in school athletics, John, wiry, but thin, played in half a dozen sports without ever making varsity. [Lee, Bruce -- 1964, Boys' Life of John F. Kennedy, Sterling Publishing] He attended private, not parochial, elementary schools spent a year at Canterbury School, graduated 64th/112, "Most likely to succeed", from Choa!
             te School in Wallingford, Connecticut. JFK spent the Summer of '35 studying at the London School of Economics. [Lee, Bruce -- 1964, Boys' Life of John F. Kennedy, Sterling Publishing] He entered Princeton University but was forced to leave because of an attack of Jaundice. In the fall of 1936, he enrolled at Harvard University. John once again attempted athletics but failed after injuring his back playing football. Two trips to Europe sparked Kennedy's love for foreign policies and politics in general. After returning, he wrote an honors thesis on British
             foreign policies of the 30's. It was published the year he graduated cum laude, in 1940 under the title Why England Slept. That summer, he spent time studying at Stanford University Graduate School of business and on into the next year while simultaneously touring multiple countries in Latin America. [Lowe, Jacques -- 1961, Portrait, the Emergence of John F. Kennedy, Bram...